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Updated: May 13, 2025
Voltaire, the greatest of them, considered the "épopée héroï-comique" the top-stone of modern practical effort; we know what astonishing feats he was himself guilty of in that species of architecture.
I told you, years ago, that the scene of this evening was a mere question of time; that, without a miracle, an edifice founded upon iniquity and cemented by falsehood must crush you before you could lay the top-stone. You would not be warned you held on your way without hesitation or compunction, and now you would add to sin fatuity.
The cross-beam has never been recovered,* but the top-stone suddenly reappeared in the following curious manner: * Transverse arms were supplied in 1823. A. S. Cook, The Dream of the Rood. A poor man and his wife having died within a few days of each other, it was decided to bury them both in one grave.
There are carvings upon it of various events in the life of Our Lord, on the north and south sides. On the top-stone, north, is a representation of St John with the eagle, and on the top-stone, south, is St John with the Agnus Dei.
He fastens conviction upon conviction gives blow upon blow to human pride; proving that there can be found nothing in our fallen nature to recommend the sinner to God all is of grace from the foundation to the top-stone of a sinner's salvation.
Moreover, if we be adjudged to have succeeded, we have added nothing to Truth itself; no, nor to its outworks. That sacred temple stands complete, firm and glorious from corner-stone to top-stone. We do but sweep away the rubbish at its base; the drifting desert sands that choke its portals.
I am not so unmindful of that devotion which I owe to those places, nor of that great esteem I profess to have of the Guides and Governors thereof, as to go about to prescribe new Forms and Schemes of Education; where Wisdom has laid her top-stone. Neither shall I here examine which Philosophy, the Old or New, makes the best sermons.
Let Abraham Lincoln make himself, as I trust he will, the Emancipator, the Liberator, as he has the opportunity of doing, and his name shall not only be enrolled in this Earthly Temple, but it will be traced on the living stones of that Temple which rears itself amid the Thrones and Hierarchies of Heaven, whose top-stone is to be brought in with shouting of 'Grace, grace unto it!"
Only let us remember this: Christ, who is Architect and Builder, Foundation and Top-stone; ay! and Deity indwelling in the temple, and building it by His indwelling this Christ is not one of those who 'begin to build and are not able to finish. He realises all His plans.
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